New Message: Licence Renewal & the Future

[David Gewirtz]

We have chosen not to renew our four Manila licenses, after numerous calls
and emails to Userland, none of which were renewed, we decided that while we
intend to continue to use the Frontier Kernel, we will be incrementally
extracting our data from our Manila files and repurposing that data to .root
files that don't use Manila resources.

Instead of investing in new Manila licenses, we decided a few years ago to
invest in the open source code itself, which is why I started to learn the
internals and add extensions like the native mysql and sqlite verbs.

This was a tough decision -- we really wanted to support Userland, but due
to the complete "dead air", we felt it safer to rely on our own code. Right
now, we run a separate server which runs one of our four licensed copies of
Userland's Frontier 9 and Manila, but they're running the last updates we
received while we were under our paid-for maintenance.

Our main servers are all running our own code and open source Frontier.

-- David

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Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 6:54 PM
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Subject: New Message: Licence Renewal & the Future

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$3089

By: Bill (lists at whalesong.org)

Hello again,

We have 27 days left in our current licence and we do plan to renew again
but wanted to know what others are doing regarding long term development of
Manila? Are others developing migration/archive strategies just as
insurance? Everything seems to have been in a holding pattern for quite a
while now.

We are a little not for profit association that has been using Userland
products for many years. [Radio is still one of my personal favourites]. We
have about five/six years of content on our Manila server and would like to
know how best to ensure we protect that against the possibility of Userland
discontinuing their work some time in the future?

This is not meant to be a negative email, just wanting to know what others
do to plan for continuity?

Thanks

Bill

This is a Manila site... http://manila.userland.com/.